Gillian MacLaren Jacobs is an American television, film, and theater actress born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. She is known for the NBC sitcom Community (2009–2015), the Netflix romantic comedy series Love (2016–2018), and the Netflix miniseries Transatlantic (2023). She had other notable television roles on the HBO comedy-drama series Girls (2015), the animated superhero series Invincible (2021–present), and the FX on Hulu comedy-drama series The Bear (2023–present). She also appeared in films such as Gardens of the Night (2008), Don't Think Twice (2016), Ibiza (2018), I Used to Go Here (2020), and the Fear Street trilogy (2021).